It is all the same with we women. We just give birth to the slaughtered.
I joke about many things, son of Ragnar, but never about ship-building.
Fame won’t make your small kingdom any bigger.
You and I both know the outcome of this battle has already been decided. But not by men. By the other women who spin our fates.[to Gunnhild]
Yes, we will all die. But not necessarily when the bandits attack us.[Woman: Lagertha, it doesn’t matter what we do. We can’t beat the bandits. You know that. We will all die.]
We have lost more knowledge than we ever had.
There is an illusion of power that induces inside you a kind of madness.
The gods never had children with humans.
Stones are much easier to wear than earth.
Only a man can be king. And a man must put aside childish things and he must learn how to stand on his own feet.[to Igor]
Nothing is so complicated. Only thinking makes it so.
Life is not a walk across an open field.